Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Doing the math in Iraq

The BBC's "One Day in Iraq" statistics are not pretty. The all-encompassing figures of June 7 include the folowing:

67 people injured in 4 car bombings

13 hours of electricity in Baghdad; 4 hours of electricity in Basra

25% of Iraqis completely dependent on government food hand-outs

50% of Iraqis with no access to safe drinking water

1,800,000 barrels of oil produced